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J. J. RICHARDSON. FIREPLACE HEATER. No. 477,155. Patented June 14, 1892.

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FIREPLACE HEATER.

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FIREPLAUE HEATER.

No. 477,155. Patented Jlhlfi 14, 1892.

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JEREMIAH J. RICHARDSON, OF BROOKLYN, NIUV YORK.

FIREPLACE-HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 477,155, dated June 14, 1892.

Application filed April 4,1885. $erial No. 161,204. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JEREMIAH J. RICHARD- SON, a citizen of the United. States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Fireplace-Heaters, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates, broadly, to that class of heaters which are known in the trade as Baltimore Fronts or Latrobe Heaters, their general object being to furnish an apparatus which can be utilized by placing the heater in one room and conveying the heat generated therein to another floor for heating an additional room or rooms. These heaters are set into the wall and beneath the mantelpiece, and, in fact, they occupy the space usually set apart for fireplaces or grates. As before stated, these heaters are intended for the heating of at least two rooms, generally one above the other; and my invention contemplates an arrangement and construction of parts whereby the whole or nearly the whole heat from the apparatus can be thrown directly into the room in which it is situated or shut off from said room almost altogether and transferred directly to and utilized in the room or rooms above. To these ends I construct the front portion of the crown of the stove with extensions on both sides in front of the stove-frame, and in connection with such extensions I arrange the vertical direct downdraft fines or pipes so as to be wholly in front of the frame of the heater instead of behind the stove-frame, as has always been the custom heretofore, so that a greater amount of the heat generated in the apparatus may be utilized for warming the room in which said heater is situated. I also arrange in connection with these forwardlysituated upright direct downdraft-fines horizontal dues in the bottom of the heater which carry the heated gases and smoke rearward. At the back of the heater they connect with transverselysituated horizontal fines, which unite with a centrally divided or double upright smoke pipe or flue arranged to convey the products of combustion upward for heating the room or rooms above. At the rear of the heater and on both sides of same are upright direct downdraft dues or pipes corresponding to those heretofore described as be ing the direction of the draft.

ing in front. These dues are provided with suitable dampers for controlling and regulat- These upright fiues connect with the transverse horizontal fines above referred to, and when the dampers are opened the draft will permit the heated gases and smoke to descend the rear vertical fines and so out and up, thereby transferring the heat direct to the rear of the stove. \Vhen, on the contrary, it is more particularly desired to heat the room in which the apparatus is situated, the aforesaid dampers are closed and the direction of the draft forced directly through the front extensions into the forwardly situated vertical downdraft flues. The result of this action will be to exhaust the greater part of the heat generated before it leaves the room in which the heater is situated.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents a front elevation of a fireplace heater with my improvements embodied. Fig. 2 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line X X, Fig. 3. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line Y Y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4. is a vertical cross-section on the line Z Z, Figs. 3 and 5. Fig. 5 is a horizontal section on the line Z Z, Figs. 2 and 4. Figs. 6 and 7 show a modification, Fig. '7 being aside elevation and Fig. 6 a horizontal section on the line Y Y, Fig. 7.

A is the front surface of the heater, and 13 the frame.

0 is the upper casting or crown of the heater, having lower plate 0", providing chamber O and formed with side extensions C in front of the frame, from which extend in a downwardly direction the vertical direct downdraft flues or pipes C. It will be noticed that these extensions and direct downdraft-fines are situated in front of the frame B.

D are horizontal rearwardly-extending fines situated in the base of the heater.

F are transverse horizontal fiues, also situated in the base of the heater at the rear. They serve to connect the fines D with the centrally-located rear pipe G. This pipe is divided in the middle, as shown in the draw ings, for the purpose of furnishing a separate means of exit for the products of combustion on each side of the apparatus. Normally the operating the dampers.

ducts of combustion will pass into the centrally-divided pipe G, which conveys the products of combustion upwardly.

the apparatus is located, the above is the direction the heated products of combustion are made to take, and by virtue of the extensions C" and the vertical fines 0' being placed so far forward the temperature of the room can be easily raised. At the rear of the heater 1; I arrange vertical fines or pipes E, similar in;

construction to the pipes O.

In connection with the fines E, I arrange dampers H for opening and closing said fines These dampers may beconstructed and 3 distributed as shown in the drawings or in any other suitable manner.

In Figs. 4, 5, and 6 I'show a handle 71 for;

When these dampers are closed, the operation hereinbefore de-;

scribed would take place-that is, the heated products of combustion would be thrown directly into the forward extensions and fluesl and the room in which the heater is situated warmed. When, however, it is more particularly desired to heat the room or rooms above,

the dampers H are opened and the heated, products of combustion, following the more% direct draft to the smoke-pipe, will descend; the rear fines E instead of the front exten-j sions and flues G and enter the fines F, passing up through pipe Gbet'ore ithas had time;

3 independent transverse bottom flues, and the The arrangement I have shown may be to become cooled.

modified somewhat, as shown in Figs. 6 and. 7, and the products of combustion may be directed into the extensions 0 and forward ends of the flues D, passing through the short fines G. In this case the latter may be greatly modified in construction, the combustion-chamber being increased in depth and the products of combustion from the fire-box conducted directly or almost so into the front portions of the horizontal flues D.

I are grate-bars set into the tops of the short fiues C" to prevent cinders falling through the latter.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new therein, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is WVhen it is desired to heat the room in which 1. The combination, in a fireplace-heater having a heater-frame, of the fire-box, the combustion-chamber over the same, the vertical descending fines connecting with combustion-chamber at top, as set forth, and situated in front of the frame of the heater, the horizontal rearwardly-extending base flnes connecting with said vertical lines, and the J transverse back base-fines connected with the of a firebox, the combustion-chamber over.

same, the front and :rear vertically-descending fines on each side of heater, the latter being provided with dampers, as described, the rearWardly-extending bottom side fines and the trans-verse horizontal base-fines, and the vertical exit-fines or smoke-pipes, whereby an independent draftis obtained-on each side of heater, substantially as shown and described.

3. In a fireplace-heater, the combination of a frame, a fire-box, a combustion-chamber over the same, the vertically-descending fines connected to the combustion-chamber and arranged wholly or in part in front of the frame, the rear vertically-descending flnes,also connected to the combustion-chamber, provided with dampers, as described, the horizontal rearwardly-extending bottom side fines, the

JEREMIAH .I. RICHARDSON.

Witnesses HERBERT KNIGHT, OSCAR A. ENHoLM. 

